Design

According to Curbed, the house in Boulder City, Nevada, dates back to the early 1960s, with the original concept designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. However, the design was modified to fit the lot by Harry Thompson, who was a student of Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1950s. There was another twist too. The original buyer went bankrupt, so effectively never lived in it, instead passing on the house to the second owner.

This 1963 build covers around 195m² and comes with some of its original dramatic features still intact. The exterior is obviously one such feature of course, as well as the wonderful main living area with its wood-panelled ceilings and oversized rose quartz fireplace and high angled ceiling. $450,000 is the asking price — via WowHaus

Have you noticed in the last few years that you don’t see colourful cars much any more? If you’re looking for your car in a parking lot, or you’re in heavy traffic, all the cars around you are silver or white, with a few black outliers. Look at any car dealership, you’ll see it full of silver and white cars, with one of two red ones for contrast. What happened to the colours?

Classic car owners are having none of that. This picture of 76 Dodge Challengers was organised at a meeting of the Peach State Challengers. You can see that a few drivers in the back showed up a few minutes late (or more likely, they didn’t want the end of the line to be white), but the overall effect is glorious. Doesn’t anyone in Georgia want to drive a yellow Challenger? — via Neatorama

This 1950s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Eppstein Residence in Galesburg, Michigan, USA is the latest to hit the market. Actually, that should be returned to the market, as this was up for sale a while back. Seems like the sale might well have fallen through, as the house is up again, tempting us in with its low price tag. At least, in comparison to UK houses of similar stature.

The house is on The Acres, which contains four Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Usonian homes, along with two properties from Taliesin School fellow Francis Willsey. The idea was to create some kind of co-operative on the 70-acre site, with 21 houses, each on a one-acre plot, with excess land for communal use. Sadly that never quite came to fruition. But the houses that were build still stand, now with the added protection of being on the National Register of Historical Places.

This particular build dates from 1953 and looks very much like it has been restored to bring out the best of the place. It’s up for sale at $455,000 — via WowHaus

Not just an A-listed piece of architecture, this Sir Basil Spence-designed Gribloch art deco property in Kippen, Stirling, Scotland also comes with plenty of land and a separate gate house. One of three private houses designed by Basil Spence prior to the Second World War, this one was commissioned by John Colville, part of the Colville steel-making family and named after the land surrounding it. It doesn’t come cheap with offers sought over £1,500,000. But compare that to some London apartments we have featured of late and it doesn’t seem too bad — via WowHaus

Cyprus-based designer Stelios Mousarris, infuses his creations with a sense of fun, combining functional objects with sculptural elements. His Rocket Coffee Table is a prime example, supporting an ordinary glass table top with the most unexpected shapes: five wooden rockets shooting up toward the ceiling, resting on resin supports in the shape of smoke plumes. Mousers combined various techniques from lathe to 3D printing, resin casting and traditional hand-curved pieces to create the creative table. One rocket pokes up higher than the rest to emerge from the glass, as if piercing the sound barrier, while the others aren’t attached so you can move them around however you like — via dornob

This is the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Paul Olfelt house in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota. The house actually dates from 1960, which is two years after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for lawyer Paul C Olfelt and his family in 1958. After the architect’s death, Taliesin Architects completed the project.

There’s something else very interesting about this place too. It has just been put on the market for the very first time by those original owners.

$1,495,000 is the asking price, which works out at around £1,048,000 — via WowHaus

Students from the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Taliesin West have designed and built Little Shelters, a collaborative project in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, as part of a design and build studio led by little maps — via ArchDaily